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Hi everyone and thank you all again for being here. My name is Alyssa Lawler and I am a third year ARCS scholar and PhD student in Andreas Pfenning’s Neurogenomics Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University. My official affiliation is with the Biological Sciences department, but the work I do spans basic...

Hi all, I have been speaking to many of the members here for the past 3 years at these various events and I am happy to speak to you all today. I work in Dr. Bryan Brown's lab at the University of Pittsburgh, but my career here did not start there...

Growing up, University of Pittsburgh bioengineering student and ARCS Scholar Alexis Nolfi always considered herself to be a little different. And she never thought of that as a negative.

“My family members excelled in the fields of arts and music, but I was more content to be outside exploring in the...

All of our scholars have “research advisors” with whom they work in areas that eventually become independent Ph.D. research areas for themselves. Thus, our outstanding scholars stand on the shoulders of nationally recognized scientists.  Dr. Neeraj Gandhi, Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, recently received a...